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Postby kurohinge1 » Wed Sep 10, 2003 12:46 pm

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Electronic book ... Japan's electronics giant Toshiba unveils a prototype model of an electronic book player, the SD Book, which displays full-colour comic contents recorded on a stamp-sized SD memory card. Photo: AFP

Imagine - the piles of magazines and comics spewing forth from the train station kiosks being replaced by little forests of memory sticks ...
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Postby GomiGirl » Wed Sep 10, 2003 12:52 pm

Wasn't this idea first thought of in the Tom Hanks movie "Big"

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I really liked that movie - maybe it was the cool clothes that Elizabeth Perkins was wearing!! 8O
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Postby kurohinge1 » Wed Sep 10, 2003 1:08 pm

GomiGirl wrote:Wasn't this idea first thought of in the Tom Hanks movie "Big" ...


Hanks: What, .... you mean stay over? OK, but only if I get to sleep on top!
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kurohinge1 wrote:Imagine - the piles of magazines and comics spewing forth from the train station kiosks being replaced by little forests of memory sticks ...


I wonder if the adult manga will have memory sticks wrapped in plastic ...
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Postby Andocrates » Wed Sep 10, 2003 1:13 pm

I don't think it will fly, people like to own things. Now if someone finds a way to bookleg the manga programs (and you know they will) and they start showing up on kazza I might get a reader.

(i got 90 One Piece episodes off of Kazza lite. . . er I mean I know someone who got 90 episodes. )
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Postby Steve Bildermann » Wed Sep 10, 2003 1:14 pm

really liked that movie - maybe it was the cool clothes that Elizabeth Perkins was wearing

Talking of movies and cool clothes - how about every costume change by Rachael (Sean Young) in Blade Runner

http://www.bladezone.com/contents/film/production/props/costumes/rachael/


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Postby Big Booger » Wed Sep 10, 2003 1:55 pm

The better idea would be to sell blank memory sticks and little downloading booths. Stick your Blank memory card in, pay the 400 yen price, and wammo, it is downloaded to your memory stick.

:D Want more than one, perform the same process, and get all your comic desires on one 128MB stick.
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Postby GomiGirl » Wed Sep 10, 2003 2:13 pm

Steve Bildermann wrote:
really liked that movie - maybe it was the cool clothes that Elizabeth Perkins was wearing

Talking of movies and cool clothes - how about every costume change by Rachael in Blade Runner


Well that goes without saying!! Blade runner would have to be one of the best movies of all time!!

I liked the sexy plastic number the female replicant with the snake was wearing too. What was the name of her character?
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Postby kurohinge1 » Wed Sep 10, 2003 2:36 pm

GomiGirl wrote: ... I liked the sexy plastic number the female replicant with the snake was wearing too. What was the name of her character?


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Postby f3likx » Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:53 am

I've already been doin just this, reading manga on my pda
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Postby American Oyaji » Mon Sep 15, 2003 11:15 pm

I just bought BR the other day.
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Postby Caustic Saint » Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:10 pm

And to help keep the manga evolution going....

Electronic paper reaches video speed
Colour movies might soon be playing on single sheets.
25 September 2003

PHILIP BALL

Paper capable of playing videos has been invented at the Philips Research laboratory in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

A single sheet looks pretty much like ordinary paper. But the ink can be rearranged electronically fast enough to show video movies.

Its devisers, Robert Hayes and Johan Feenstra, have also figured out how to create full-colour displays. Their colour screens would be four times brighter than the flat devices currently made from liquid crystals, they reckon.

The invention is the latest version of 'electronic ink'. Researchers hope to combine the convenience, robustness and readability of printed material with the vast and flexible information content of laptop computers....

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Postby cstaylor » Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:05 pm

If they can get the electonic paper books down to the weight of a good programming text, I'll buy it. ;)
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Postby bejiita » Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:49 am

Yeah, but just as you get to that climatic ending while you're on the train, the battery dies! Yoiks.
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Postby cstaylor » Fri Sep 26, 2003 12:42 pm

bejiita wrote:Yeah, but just as you get to that climatic ending while you're on the train, the battery dies! Yoiks.
I don't read hentai comics. ;)
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Postby bejiita » Fri Sep 26, 2003 3:58 pm

NHK News Flash. Chikan complaints are on the rise ever since Toshiba's E-Book hit the market. :lol:
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Postby kamome » Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:26 pm

cstaylor wrote:
bejiita wrote:Yeah, but just as you get to that climatic ending...the battery dies!

I don't read hentai comics. ]

I thought you were going to say you don't use a vibrator. :D
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Postby cstaylor » Fri Sep 26, 2003 6:19 pm

Not on myself... ;)
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Postby gomichild » Sat Sep 27, 2003 12:59 pm

E-books are no fun - they will be the end of the traditional community service of buying a manga, leaving in the train, someone else picking it up and reading it, leaving on the train ....
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Postby Caustic Saint » Sat Sep 27, 2003 1:28 pm

But just think, now you could beam your manga to strangers on the train. :)
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